Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
> I have been coordinating the resolution of the bugs about the PHP media types > with the different players including you and the release team, and we reached > a > consensus. Then you suddenly changed your mind overnight, and went for > another > solution without contacting all the parties. I

Re: Bug#685787: devscripts: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:08:54PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:38:13PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > 1. If (and only if) the debian/copyright file is > > > > Format: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > I think th

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:03:03PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > So would be nice to check that the implementation properly includes all > > of the following items: > > > > Format: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > Source: http://susy.oddbird.net/ > >

Sourceless files in source package (was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > It seems to me that the primary objection to the presence of these > > files without source is that they are then distributed as part of > > Debian, in the source package. That violates our social contract. > > The counter-argument from affected ma

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Aug 25, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Upholding the social contract – that Debian, as distributed by the > > Debian project, remain 100% free – is sufficient reason to remove these > > files without corresponding source. > As I said, this is a religious argumen

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Aug 25, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Upholding the social contract – that Debian, as distributed by the > > Debian project, remain 100% free – is sufficient reason to remove these > > files without corresponding source. > As I said, this is a religious argumen

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
> On 12-08-22 at 09:39am, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > In comparison to the current method for repacking (debian/rules > > get-orig-source), this doesn't allow per-file-set comments about why > > the file-set is being removed. I often use this to document in more > > detail why I am removing files. So

The D programming language

2012-08-24 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, I just finished the awesome book "The D programming language" from Andrei Alexandrescu and totally felt in love with D. People already started to work on D for Debian, but the mailing lists and wiki sites are very quiet recently: http://wiki.debian.org/D http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-

Re: Advocating the use of RDF for Debian's published metadata - Was: Re: Proposal for additional metadata in Debian archives (DEP-11)

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:31:35PM +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit : > > Again, in case you'd doubt it, RDF is just a model, which can be written > in a number of different formats (not only XML), but the key here is the > embedded identification of the reference of the ontologies/prefixes > which r

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 25, Ben Finney wrote: > Upholding the social contract – that Debian, as distributed by the > Debian project, remain 100% free – is sufficient reason to remove these > files without corresponding source. As I said, this is a religious argument. It's OK, billions of people have a faith and y

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > It seems to me that the primary objection to the presence of these files > without source is that they are then distributed as part of Debian, in > the source package. That violates our social contract. The counter-argument from affected maintainers is that we *do* have the

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Jackson writes: > I don't think this should be fixed by changing the DFSG. The DFSG is > correct - sourceless minified js files, GFDL docs with invariant > sections, gimp-generated pixmaps without the original gimp source, > etc., are all Not Free Software. I agree entirely with that paragra

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:46:33AM +, Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit : > > Maybe the mime-support maintainer(s) can set these as goals for > jessie :) > Syncing with IANA and cleaning up unofficial definitions. :) Sorry to be in bad mood, but I do not think that I need more reminders to kee

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 23:28 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Also I don't think you have a definitive say in what associations are > needed in mime-support package. It's up to individual "users" of > mime-support package (read individual packages) to define what they > need for correct functionality. I

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:28:33PM +0200, Ondřej Surý a écrit : > > Also I don't think you have a definitive say in what associations are > needed in mime-support package. It's up to individual "users" of > mime-support package (read individual packages) to define what they > need for correct func

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/24/2012 10:04 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I note that neither Fedora nor Ubuntu systems associate the text/x-php >> and text/x-php-source media types to .php files by default. Fedora uses IANA as an authoritative sour

Early source package modeling in RDF - Was: Re: Advocating the use of RDF for Debian's published metadata

2012-08-24 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. FYI, I've been working on adding some RDF descriptions of source packages to the PTS (committed in SVN, not yet in production). The RDF models : - a source packaging "project" for each source package - the different revisions of the source known by the PTS - for the one in unstable (as the PT

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Charles, et all. On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 23:04 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I note that neither Fedora nor Ubuntu systems associate the text/x-php > and text/x-php-source media types to .php files by default. > > Today, a rogue NMU on the mime-support package added these associations in > Debi

Restoring the removed e16 package

2012-08-24 Thread The Wanderer
I'm not positive whether this properly belongs here; if it would be more appropriate on another mailing list, just let me know which one. I'm a long-time user of e16, which has been removed from Debian, per bug 619707. The reasons cited for removal are that it has been replaced by e17, that it i

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/24/2012 10:04 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > I note that neither Fedora nor Ubuntu systems associate the text/x-php > and text/x-php-source media types to .php files by default. > > Today, a rogue NMU on the mime-support package added these associations in > Debian. I intend to re

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:18:12PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:03:49 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > There is, it's called the kernel. > > No, there isn't, and there can't possibly be, as interface's > configuration isn't only what ifconfig/route/ip repor

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)"): > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:32:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Some of the information is machine-readable, and some is not. This is > > obviously necessary in the gen

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 04:32:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from > upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)"): > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:37:18PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabli

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)"): > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:37:18PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from > > upstream source (Was:

Bug#685787: devscripts: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.69+squeeze2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, in a (bit longish) thread on debian-devel@l.d.o[1] there was some discussion about enabling uscan to remove files from upstream archives according to some information given in some control file. There was no real co

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:03:49 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > There is, it's called the kernel. No, there isn't, and there can't possibly be, as interface's configuration isn't only what ifconfig/route/ip reports to you (which is what kernel knows about it). -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc

About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I note that neither Fedora nor Ubuntu systems associate the text/x-php and text/x-php-source media types to .php files by default. Today, a rogue NMU on the mime-support package added these associations in Debian. I intend to revert that change unless there there is a solid explanation

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:44 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:51:27 +0100 > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > What I mean is that this still happens: > > > # ifup eth0 > > ... > > # ifconfig eth0 down > > # ifup eth0 > > ifup: interface eth0 already configured > > Why s

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:37:18PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from > upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)"): > > 1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains > > I don't think debian/copyright sh

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)"): > 1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains > a space separated list of regular expressions. > The deletion process will loop over every express

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Minified javascript files"): > I agree with you that it's useless work. But the ftpmasters believe that > Debian is made of source and binary packages and that the content of the > source package should respect DFSG #2 “The program must include source > code[...]”. > >

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernd Zeimetz writes ("Re: Minified javascript files"): > On 08/16/2012 08:59 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Aug 16, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > >> I know this is tedious but what others think about this matter? > > This is another case in which the DFSG has become a religion to be > > followed

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:06:14PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Above means inventing a *new* syntax for files, instead of reusing the > > existing one from Files: paragraphs. > > debian/control, which is 822-like, already supports #-comments. So, > strictly speaking, we will just reusing

Re: How to handle dirty tarballs (Was: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source)

2012-08-24 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:42:43PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: || On 12-08-24 at 11:31am, Andreas Tille wrote: || > when working on patches for uscan to implement the removal of files I || > stumbled upon one problem: What to do with dirty tarballs (which are || > unpacking all their files

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:33:09PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Files-Excluded: > > # ignore copy of lua > > lua_5.1.4/ […] > Above means inventing a *new* syntax for files, instead of reusing the > existing one from Files: paragraphs. debian/control, which is 822-like, already supp

Re: How to handle dirty tarballs (Was: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source)

2012-08-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-08-24 at 11:31am, Andreas Tille wrote: > when working on patches for uscan to implement the removal of files I > stumbled upon one problem: What to do with dirty tarballs (which are > unpacking all their files straight to the unpack directory and do not > create a subdirectory). When I wr

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-08-24 at 11:16am, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:39:00AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > > Any further hints / remarks? > > > > In comparison to the current method for repacking (debian/rules > > get-

Re: How to handle dirty tarballs (Was: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source)

2012-08-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > do not create a subdirectory). When I write get-orig-source tarballs > I always create a - directory and unpack the content > to this. Should this be implemented as well or do you think it is > better to change as less as possible? You can always creat

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-08-24 at 11:28am, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:59:10AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Anyway, I thought I wanted a separate file, but then I remembered that > > > uscan already uses 'debian/watch' for configuration. The syntax of a > > > watch file is pretty awkw

How to handle dirty tarballs (Was: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source)

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, when working on patches for uscan to implement the removal of files I stumbled upon one problem: What to do with dirty tarballs (which are unpacking all their files straight to the unpack directory and do not create a subdirectory). When I write get-orig-source tarballs I always create a - d

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:59:10AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Anyway, I thought I wanted a separate file, but then I remembered that > > uscan already uses 'debian/watch' for configuration. The syntax of a > > watch file is pretty awkward, being based on (logical) lines rather > > than

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 05:15:35PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Well, two reasons not to bundle it into DEP-5 format files. First, > there may be a lot of people like me who would find value in a > config-file-driven 'get-orig-source' but who do not find any value in > maintaining debian/copyri

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Paul, On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:39:00AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Any further hints / remarks? > > In comparison to the current method for repacking (debian/rules > get-orig-source), this doesn't allow per-file-set comments about wh

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-08-23 at 05:15pm, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > Automating get-orig-source is a fine idea, but tying it to DEP-5 > > > would be unfortunate. > > [Jonas Smedegaard] > > You mean that you prefer a separate file for this info? > > > > What should be its name? What should be its syntax? > >

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:21:18 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > > People talk about how ifupdown works well with other configuration > > tools, unlike Network Manager. But it doesn't, it only knows how to > > undo the configuration specified in /etc/network/interfaces. > ifupdown should be the

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:51:27 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > What I mean is that this still happens: > # ifup eth0 > ... > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifup eth0 > ifup: interface eth0 already configured Why should it happen otherwise? You did *NOT* deconfigure the interface. > People talk ab

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:38:14PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > ...Or add the exclude list to a file called 'debian/watch'. I struggle to see why. I suppose because uscan reads debian/watch, but the point of that file is to document where to find upstream sources, the name implies that, and put